That’s a lot for a body to go through, and it’d be natural for Analyn to experience a dent in her confidence.

When your body changes, the way you view yourself can change with it.

But Analyn is determined to stop bashing her body, and start appreciating it.

To celebrate her body and all it’s survived, Analyn shared a photo of herself in underwear on her Instagram.

‘This body as a cancer survivor, as an amputee, as the mom to three,’ she wrote in the caption.

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‘I have the scars to show the battles I have fought. I have the stretch marks to show the babies I have grown.

‘My body tells a story, it shows my journey.

And yet I had never been so hard on myself and how I looked.

‘I’m 16 months post-partum, I’m still nursing. My stomach is still soft and my breasts will never be as perky as they once were.

‘But I’ve had to stop the nit-picking and be kind to myself.’

Her photo was liked thousands of times, which has helped Analyn to learn to appreciate her body.

‘Thousands of people ‘liked’ my picture and I had such a positive response, it’s shown me I have to be confident, to try and look at myself the way the people I love see me,’ she explained. ‘I had to look at the amazing things this body had done.’

Analyn in hospital in 1998 (Collect/PA Real Life)

Doula Analyn was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in her right leg when she was in her teens.

She went through chemotherapy, followed by rotationplasty, a surgery that’s usually only suitable for very young children.

Rotationplasty involves slicing off the foot and reattaching it to the knee, backwards.

‘My mother, Bonnie, now 55, didn’t know it was a cancer until she went home and read about it,’ said Analyn. ‘Then she looked up sarcoma and realised it was cancer. She was horrified.’

‘I remember I went to the surgeon and said, “You’re cutting off my right leg”. I wasn’t worried.

‘I’d been in such pain before, and missed so much school I just wanted it off.’

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Shortly after her surgery, however, a blood clot formed above Analyn’s right knee, leading to more surgery and even more chemotherapy – followed by physiotherapy to help her re-learn to walk.

‘My baby sister Camryn, now 19, was born around the time when I was re-learning to walk and we would joke about who would be standing first.

‘Well, Camryn beat me by a mile.

‘I was a teenage girl and straight away thought, “What will I look like in a miniskirt?”

‘For quite some time I wouldn’t wear one.’

In her late teens, Analyn braved the miniskirt – and felt great. She now hardly worries about her right leg, and is quick to sing the praises of rotationplasty, which allows her backwards foot to act as a knee joint.

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Analyn wears a bright blue prosthetic which allows her to walk – and she can even jet-ski with her foot bent backwards.

‘When I go out and people look at me, I wonder why, then remember it’s my leg,’ she said.

In 2008 she got married and give birth to Liam, Elizabeth, and Catherine. Shortly after Catherine’s birth, Analyn got divorced, and it was then that she finally felt comfortable enough to pose for a photo in just her underwear.

‘I was so delighted when thousands of people liked it and I had such a positive response,’ says Analyn.

‘It’s shown me – I have to be confident.

‘As a mom and a woman with a disability, I wanted to show the world a real-life post-partum woman with a disability.’